Chapter 1058 - 98: Epilogue (Part 2)

If Martin enjoys watching the ordinary folk and feeling their passion and motivations, then the Science Council represents the elite talents.

The Moon Base was established by these elite talents to solve the battlefield site issue:

Due to Lille’s intervention, the explosion did not destroy the Moon, but it did cause a considerable scale of explosion, affecting the Moon’s orbital trajectory and the overall gravity.

The most severe short-term effect is the change in tidal locking dynamics, but in the long run, the deviation speed of the Earth-Moon orbital system will accelerate.

Furthermore, the explosion produced many massive fragments; it would be disastrous if they were captured by Earth and hit residential areas—

This is the Space Administration of the New World Alliance.

Dr. Tumus is developing solutions from a mechanical processing perspective, Gwen and Peter are assisting from the sidelines, Professor Conners continues to explore how cross-species genetic engineering can help humans explore space and other environments, Dr. Otto is improving energy technology...

But the most important project is still the Singularity Project.

The oil resources that Dalio painstakingly tried to monopolize, at the end of this battle, everyone willingly helped the New World Alliance with the extraction and agreed to explore this technology, to explore unknown worlds—

Just as Martin said, someone like Dalio will never understand why you can obtain things without relying on power and deceit.

The Singularity Control Tower on the Moon Base’s surface is far larger in scale than the hurriedly constructed experimental equipment of the Rocksen Group and is evidently much safer. Both in resource reserves and safety control measures, it is far richer, after all, the quality of scientists here far exceeds that of the Rocksen Group.

Near the Singularity Control Tower, Optimus Prime and BT sit each on a massive Moon rock, with a table made of rocks between them.

The two robots clasp hands, staring at each other, exerting hidden strength—

Indeed, they’re arm wrestling!

[Optimus Prime: Surprising... Hmm... Humans can actually create robots so close to Transformers...]

[Cooper: BT isn’t just any robot. He’s a wise Titan—BT, go for it!]

[Optimus Prime: But like this, winning me might be a bit difficult...]

Boom!

The table unexpectedly shattered due to the immense force!

The two robots are covered in dust; Optimus Prime agilely stands up while BT remains seated, looking at his hand and then at the table.

[BT: Jack, I feel like we were about to lose just now.]

[Cooper: I know, don’t mention it, it’s quite embarrassing.]

Optimus Prime stood up, looking towards space, a spaceship was approaching the landing zone—

[Optimus Prime: Lille has arrived.]

[Optimus Prime: This world has an enviable ending, hopefully, our world can also embrace such a conclusion.]

[Cooper: Have faith, big guy, remember to help us improve the technology...]

...

"Lille, your mom is really nice, really beautiful, and a great cook; I’ve never tasted such delicious food!"

"Lille, how could you tell her my name? I wanted to introduce myself and say, she’s so elegant, and when I said my name is V, she was stunned..."

"But she’s too gentle, luckily it’s not in Night City."

"The snow is so fun... It’s my first time experiencing clean, natural snow, and the fresh air makes even the rain feel more comfortable."

"Lille, you said there’s so much under the sea, when can we explore a marine world?"

"Can’t we stay a little longer? Everything in Night City has been sorted out, and you can remotely manage those AI workers here, why are you in such a hurry to go back..."

"Lille, are you listening to me, Lille!"

Lille’s ears were almost growing calluses, he glanced at V somewhat helplessly.

When V mentioned AI work, the little octopus suddenly popped up, its big eyes looking at V tearfully, making V feel guilty, dragging the little octopus into his pocket:

"I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about entities like Munemasa and Illuminati that are born to work..."

Then the little octopus slid out of V’s pocket and flew to Lille’s head, pretending to be angry and hugged its eight arms.

V relentlessly reaches out to touch the little octopus’s head—

Honestly, it would look odd if it weren’t just them in the spaceship, reaching out to touch the air on Lille’s head.

The little octopus can usually only be seen by the two of them, thinking about it made V a bit happy, so he pulled the little octopus back into his arms harder this time, and it didn’t slide out.

The spaceship slowly landed on the Moon Base’s tarmac, the hatch opened, Lille led V towards the test field, saying:

"Night City can be as good as here in the future, provided we handle some things first—and aren’t you a bit too excited?"

"Why shouldn’t I be happy." V was quite unhappy, "I’m starting to enjoy life and you’re telling me to go back to work? I’ll punch you."

"Cheer up, after we return, there won’t be any high-intensity work..."

"And then? What do we do after sorting out Night City and those corporate dogs?"

"Then... look here," Lille leaned towards V, reaching out and counting on his fingers, "What do you think of Titans?"

"Pretty cool, but Transformers are still cooler... although I can’t go in and drive a Transformer, Titans are still better."

"Don’t you want to see their world? Like Optimus Prime, there are many Transformers as cool as him, but varied in their world, some dance, some tell yellow jokes, some boast...

And Titans, although we can create them here, don’t you feel bothered without rivals?

Cooper has places for you to shine, and they have many colonized planets there, all with beautiful scenery."

As Lille spoke, V’s eyes began to shine brightly—

Night City is like a giant cesspit, in the Cyberpunk World, even a cesspit is better than other sewage tanks.

But compared to the magnificent future depicted by Lille, the entire city, even the whole world, seems a bit narrow.

Lille continued: "Also, after we go back this time, we’re gonna be invincible, think of those crazy corporate dogs, we can take them down one by one.

Once we’ve dealt with things over there, we set off—I forgot to mention, in other worlds, there might be even bigger robots than Transformers, like seventy or eighty meters tall!

And monsters even bigger than those robots, don’t you want to see them?"

The more V spoke, the more excited she became, while Lille appropriately calmed down, saying: "We can go wherever we want, and once we’ve solved the problems or get tired, we come home, back here, my mom will definitely welcome you, eat whatever you want...

But let’s sort everything out first."

As they chatted, the two walked to the Control Tower, where Optimus Prime and Cooper were already prepared to return to their respective worlds to continue battling their foes.

V gave Lille a solid pat on the shoulder: "What are we waiting for then? Let’s start!"

Lille smiled, reached up to take the ark reactor from his chest, and placed it into the specially designed Energy Control Slot—

In doing so, the explosion would be controlled within the Vibranium and utilized directionally.

The unstable energy explosion; he had completely stabilized this technology.

Lille looked at Cooper and Optimus Prime on BT’s shoulder:

"Thanks for your help, now it’s our turn to help you."

Transformers and the resistance’s technology is obviously very advanced, but by referencing technology from different worlds, and exchanging through inter-dimensional technology, there is still room for improvement.

Just this small space for improvement can bring them tremendous support.

They even believed that one day, the IMC and the Central Star Cluster could be completely defeated, just like the Rocksen Group and Hydra in this world;

Believing that the dead core of Cybertron could be reignited with immense energy, returning to the planet abandoned for thousands of years, rebuilding a home, just like the people of this world.

For Lille, the "Cyberpunk" era has completely ended; when humans cast aside prejudices and barriers, unite as one, and rush into space, embracing infinite possibilities, the brutal old age is already past.

Through struggle and victory, this society has fulfilled the aspirations of every young civilization, a home with a unified goal, a road leading to the brilliant stars.

"Get ready—"

Lille activated the Singularity Control Tower, and a massive amount of energy erupted from the tower, directly hitting the central Vibranium core.

The world in front of Optimus Prime and Cooper changed in an instant:

Their compatriots in the resistance and Transformers witnessed all of this with joy, seeds of hope took root and sprouted.

Then, it was V and Lille’s turn.

Lille slightly bowed, making a gentleman’s gesture to V, inviting her to enter first:

"Ladies first, Miss Valerie."

V looked puzzled: "What are you doing? It sounds like you’re not coming back?"

"I’ll come back, but not with you. Last time when there was an explosion here, I felt something strange:

Think about it, this technology requires a certain level of skill to accurately transport humans and objects, but from the start, I relied on something called ’system’ for directional transport..."

V realized: "You want to explore what that thing really is?"

Lille nodded: "Last time during the explosion, I felt there was indeed something... making contact with me, I can only think it has to be this reason, I want to conduct an experiment—

Before you ask me: I assure you, this experiment should be safe, I just feel like that contact seems to be useful only to me."

V leaned closer to Lille’s face, then directly took Lille’s face in her hands, observing left and right, finally saying: "Hmm... well alright, don’t keep me waiting too long, or I’ll get mad."

"It won’t be long."

After a simple goodbye, V was also sent back to her own world.

Finally, it was Lille’s turn.

[Lille: Doctor, everything is ready, adjust the positioning parameters.]

In the control room, Dr. Otto nodded and began to adjust the parameters—

[Dr. Otto: Lille, I want to represent the entire Science Council, I mean, all the, um, scientists, to thank you once again, thank you for everything you’ve done.]

[Lille: Come on, Doctor, do you have to say that now?]

Otto felt a bit awkward being confronted, but still said:

[Dr. Otto: No, I just feel that if it wasn’t for you, everything might have ended differently, if the world were controlled by someone like Dalio... you know what I mean.]

[Dr. Otto: But now we can all freely pursue our dreams, and use our abilities to benefit the world.]

[Lille: Then I have to reiterate, Doctor, it’s all of us together who saved all this, not just relying on me alone.]

[Lille: I’m going to start the machine now, happy new beginnings, Doctor.]

[Dr. Otto: Thank you, and also happy new beginnings to you, and good luck.]

This event, like all other research and production activities, was public, and the whole world could see the result of this experiment, making the atmosphere a bit... intense.

Although Lille assured V, and he indeed believes this is an experiment without too much risk, Otto still considers it ultimately a step into the unknown.

Or rather, a slightly rational person should be able to realize this:

Every journey to otherworldly is an adventure, adventure doesn’t come with absolute safety...

But ignorance and blindness are equally so, so he understood Lille’s actions.

Energy in the tower began to fill, a massive singularity began to envelop all of Lille’s senses.

In an instant, everything disappeared.